Pile, plush, or nap fabric.



S. BLUMEN'I'HAL.

PILE

APPLICATION FILED FEB.4,1908.

, PLUSH, 0R NAP 1131110.

Patented Dec. 29, 1908.

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PILE, PLUSH, on NAP rABmc.

Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 29, 1908.

Application filed February 4, 1908. Serial No. 414,165.

To all whom it may concern." p

Be it known that I, SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Pile, Plush, or Nap Fabric, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a pile, plush or nap fabric having pile, lush or nap ortion of the fabric formed of iflerent kind of fiber arranged in well defined grou s so that fiber of one kind shall alternate wit fiber of another kind with the object in view of producing a completed product in which the pile, nap or plus surface shall .present a mottled or variegated appearance depending u on the greater prominence of one kind of fi er over another independent of any calendering or pressing operation.

My invention further consists in the method of making a fabric of the above character.

In the accom anying drawings, Figure 1 re resents in si e elevation, partly in verti-' ca section and in a general or dia rammatic manner, means for passing t e fabric through a bath, Fig. 2 is a face view of a piece of the fabric after it is woven and beore it has been passed through the bath, Fig. 3 is a section of the same 'in the lane of the line A-A of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is aace'view of the same after it has been passed through the bath, Fig. 5 is a section of the same in the plane of the line BB of Fig. 4, and Fig. fifis a section in the plane of the line CFC 0 Fi 4.

Th e different kinds of fibers which I have chosen for the pile, plush or napportion of my fabric to illustrate my invention are wool and mohair, the wool bein denoted by 1 and the mohair by 2. These fi ers 1 and 2 are introduced into a back or foundation fabrid 3 in the usual or any approved way for roducing a pile, lush or nap fabric, and w en introduced an out the wool and mohair are of the same height as shown in Figs.- 2 and 3. These diflerent fibers, wool and mohair, are here shown as introduced in groups forming broad stripes running longitudinally of the oods. For instance, a group of mohair hers is introduced formin a broad stripe of mohair and then a group 0 W001 fibers forming a broad stripe of wool, then a group of mohair and so on. I do not, however, wish to confine myself to this grouping of the different kindsof fiber in broad stripes as it is obvious that they might be introduced in the form of narrow stripes or in forms other than stripes. These articular kinds of fibers, wool and mohair, are mentioned as J this way and for the purposes of my inven-' tion it is essential that the diflerent kinds of fiber be selected with this in view, viz: that when immersed in or treatedto a common bath, the one shall be affected and caused to crinkle or collapse more than the other.

The fabric havin been woven as above in,

dicated and the ,p' e, plush or nap. portion having been introduced in groups of the desired conformatiomthe fabric, .denoted as a whole by 4, may, be passed over a roller 5 and or example water 6 conthence into liquid, tained in a tank7, the said fabric passing underneath a roller 8 located in-the liquidti,

thence up and over a roller 9 and along over a drying device 10 and thence over a roller 11 in engagement with a carding wheel 12. The.

effect of the bath 6 is todestroy the stiffness of the wool fibers, causing them to crinkle or collapse and withdraw from the former position, even with the mohair fibers, substantially as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and in this position the will remain while themohair fibers 2 will e affected little or not at all by the action of the bath and will remain standing at full length, the face of the fabric presenting, when dried and carded, a series of stripes composed alternately of wool and mohair, the mohair standing out prominently twice .the "length, more -or less, of the wool and this without any pressing whatever of the wool portions but simply due to their natural crinkling or collapsing from wetting. What I claim is 1. A pile, plush or nap fabric in which the pile, plush or nap portion is separated into well defined groups of different kinds of fiber, one kind of fiber having been collapsed to a greater extent than another kind offiber.

2. A pile, plush or napfabric in which the pilp, plush or nap portion is formed in well denned groups of wool and mohair, the wool portion having been crinkled or collapsed back from the face of the mohair.

3. The method of forming a pile, plush or 

